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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4286E6A5.4030902 at freebsd.org>, Colin Percival writes:
>Nate Lawson wrote:
>> That is at best, hyperbole.
>
>Have you been talking to Intel lately?
>
>>  Crypto implementations which properly
>> implement blinding or operate in constant time are not vulnerable.
>
>Crypto implementations which implement blinding are vulnerable.

This is not just about crypto.

There are many processes which a random process should not be allowed
to spy on in a multiuser system.

Your boss text-procssing or email program for one thing.

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